I was at a great loss what to do; when Mary said, pray, madam, take my poor advice; accept of the portrait, and every thing else that his lordship sends you; for if you do not, he can compel you to do what he pleases, and put you to death when he thinks proper, without any body being able to defend you.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But wilt thou not weep, wilt thou not weep forth thy purple melancholy, then wilt thou have to SING, O my soul!—Behold, I smile myself, who foretell thee this: —Thou wilt have to sing with passionate song, until all seas turn calm to hearken unto thy longing,— —Until over calm longing seas the bark glideth, the golden marvel, around the gold of which all good, bad, and marvellous things frisk:— —Also many large and small animals, and everything that hath light marvellous feet, so that it can run on violet-blue paths,— —Towards the golden marvel, the spontaneous bark, and its master: he, however, is the vintager who waiteth with the diamond vintage-knife,— —Thy great deliverer, O my soul, the nameless one—for whom future songs only will find names!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He should fine Winkle two pounds, and Snodgrass one pound, besides requiring them to enter into their own recognisances to keep the peace towards all his Majesty’s subjects, and especially towards his liege servant, Daniel Grummer.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

and they will endure these harsh laws with the knowledge that they themselves have imposed them—the feeling of power and of this particular power will be too recent among them and too attractive for them not to suffer anything for its sake.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But certeyn is, er Troilus him leyde, Deiphebus had him prayed, over night, To been a freend and helping to Criseyde.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

[3] ; which fails to recognise [Pg 95] the Eternal Reality immanent in everything that has life, and shining forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The one is in the third book of Lucretius (830-1095), where the arguments for suicide are urged, not merely by the poet himself, but by arguments placed by him in the mouth of Nature herself, and urged with such cogency that they are said to have induced one of his editors and translators, Creech, to put an end to his life.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

It was common for the patient after having been exposed some nights in the temple, without being cured, to depart and put an end to his life.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The golden words that Dr. Howe uttered and the example that he left passed into her thoughts and heart and helped her on the road to usefulness; and now she stands by his side as his worthy successor in one of the most cherished branches of his work....
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The greater part of his life has been spent in this section of the state and he has become imbued with the spirit of western enterprise that has led to the rapid and substantial upbuilding of this section of the state.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

I asked, my anger rising at the thought of a discharged employé thus holding Léonie in his power, and, despite the fact that he had made an attempt upon her life, badgering her to marry him.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

Were not all lovers of good government "erecting their heads like dromedaries?
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) by John Lothrop Motley

And even should he escape this second calamity, a third will put an end to his life to-morrow night.
— from Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India by Pandit Natesa Sastri

“Is the son of Karl XI going to permit the Czar of Muscovy to add so easily to his laurels?”
— from Kings-at-Arms by Marjorie Bowen

But every time he looked around again, they were still following him, watching his every move with a hungry gleam in their eyes such as was in those of the old mink, such as, indeed, was now also coming into his own eyes.
— from Red Ben, the Fox of Oak Ridge by Joseph Wharton Lippincott

[Footnote: The next day, on the tenth Thermidor, Robespierre, who in the night had attempted to put an end to his life with a pistol, was executed with twenty-one companions.
— from Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

It was evident that her lawyer tried to get her to abandon this line of defense.
— from Kerfol 1916 by Edith Wharton